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A collage of four black white photographs.

The collage is of four black and white photographs. Each photograph is of two frames of a film strip with sprocket holes visible and the manufacturer’s name, Agfa, shown in reverse on the top two. In all four there are light colored horizontal rectangles with either one or two thin, dark horizontal and/or vertical rectangles. Dark shadows obscure the edges or the centers of several of the squares.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
70.1999
People
Hans Richter, American (Berlin, Germany 1888 - 1976 Locarno, Switzerland)
Title
Rhythmus I
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1922
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/173028

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Collage of four gelatin silver prints
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 13 x 3.4 cm (5 1/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, center, in blue pencil: H. Richter
  • inscription: verso, center, blue pencil, German, in artist's hand: H. Richter [over] Rhythmus I

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Prakapas Gallery, Bronxville, NY, sold to lender, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
Object Number
70.1999
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/11/2019 - 06/03/2021

Verification Level

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